Thomas meikle



T. MEIKLE. FAGOT.

No. 411,748, Patented -Spt, 24. 1889.

%vn/t?" UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

THOMAS MEIKLE, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HUGH F. MEIKLE, OF SAME Fli-ACE.

FAGOT.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,*748, dated September 24, 1889.

Serial No. %17,896. (Ne model.)

To (all whom it ma y conccrn:

Be it known that I, THOMAS MEIKLE, a citizen of the United States, residing` at Louis- Ville, in the connty of J efferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Inprovements in Billets or Blooms for Forgi'g; and I do deelare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in IO the art. to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to billets, blooms, or fagots for rolling or forging, which are compound in, constitntion-L e., forned of different materials or grades of material; and the object of the invention is especially to produce soft-center steel with a sound and perfect weld between the Component parts of the plate or piece.

In carrying my invention into effect I take a piece of iron and heat it to a white heat by any suitable means. I then lay a sma-ll strip of iron or steel on each end of it, top and bottom, four pieces in all, and place upon or 2 5 against said strips, above and below the piece of iron, two pieces of steel in such manner that what maybe ternied flues are forned between. the iron and steel pieces. The whole is then placed in a suitable f urnace and heated to a welding heat, the arrangement of part-s above described being such that the heat has direct access to the interier faces of the pieces which are to be welded together. All parts of these surfaces are thus perfectly 3 5 prepared for the welding operation, and when acted upon by the hammer a sound and perfeet weld takes place at all points.

In order to make my invention more clearly nnderstood, I have shown in the acconpanying drawings means for carrying the same into practical effect.

In said drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a billet, bloom, or fagot enbodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the samo. Fig. 3 is a transverse section.

Beferring` to the drawings, A indicates the central iron piece. B indicates the pieces of steel 011 each side of or above and below the same; and C denotes the strips by which said pieces are separated, forming openings or fiues F.

The relative thicknesses of the partsA and B will be detcrmined by the proportion of soft center which is desired in the product.

It will be understood that, if desired, the steel may be placed intermediate between two pieces of iron, giving a product with a hard center and soft exterior; also, that but two pieces maybe eniployed-one of iron and one of steel-giving a product. soft upon one side and hard upon the other.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A fae'ot conposed of a plurality of pieces of iron and steel having interposed between them pieces by which the former are separated to produce heating-flues, substantially as set forth.

2. In a fagot, the combination, with the central piece A, of iron, of the exteror pieces B, of steel, and the interposed strips C, arranged to produce fiues F, substantially as set forth.

In testimon y whereof I my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS M EIKLE.

lVitnesses:

S. G. SHEPPARD, J. E. RATHBONE. 

